What is/are Eileanan Aonaranach? Well, for now it's the working title for the Gaelic language version of Lonely-Isles. Why is there going to be a Gaelic language version? Well, learning Gaelic is something I'd wanted to do for a long time and so in February 2018 I startedAn Cùrsa Inntrigidh at Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, Scotland's only Gaelic medium FE college, located on the Isle of Skye. The course I am doing lasts for about 18 months, is split into three parts (Earrann) and is a distance learning based. Weekly phone tutorials supplement the learning you do on your own with the course notes.

One of my driving reasons for learning Gaelic was to produce this, Eileanan Aonaranach. Many of the islands featured would have been home to Gaelic speakers so it seemed only right that the website dedicated to these places was also available in their mother tongue. It won't be an overnight creation. It will be a labour of love, and a labour of trial and effort. It is something I will in all likelihood work away on for many years until I'm happy with it. Page by page it will appear, but only when I have enough Gaelic to make the pages as clear and informative as the English version.